"Spells Out The Word of Itself, and Then Dispelling Itself": The Chaotics of Memory and The Ghost of the Novel in Jeff Noon's Falling out of Cars.
This article considers British author Jeff Noon's most recent novel Falling out of Cars (2002) as a literary experiment engaged in raising the ghost of the modern novel, long hailed as dead. Here, Noon samples canonic literature then transforms, manipulates, and reconfigures it in much the same way...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 260 - 285 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2012
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